[c-nsp] 3rd party Xenpak for 65xx

[Martin Robinson]

Hi,

What a lot of companies have done is the same has Cisco has done, as
Cisco just OEM their GBICS other third parties have just gone to the
original manufactures and purchased the same GBIC's and Xenpaks Cisco do
and place a different brand on then. So brands like Prolabs, come from
the same source as the Cisco one's but without the Cisco mark-up.

Martin.

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Sent: 27 September 2006 08:39
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 3rd party Xenpak for 65xx

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 16:41:09 -0400 Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
  
  > BTW I hope everyone had the opportunity to read:
  > http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=102950
  
  I think this article and the discussion below it lacks at least two
main points.
  
  First, for those extremely high prices, Cisco is sometimes delivering
outdated modules. Although the final standard for XENPAKs (3.0) was
approved in Sept 2002, Cisco was shipping pre-standard (2.1) LR modules
without DOM support even in summer 2005. Similarly, even though there
are many sources for DOM-enabled SFPs for quite a long time, the SX, LX
and ZX ones shipped by Cisco are still lacking DOM.
  
  Second, vendor locking has motivated some "companies" to produce fake
Cisco modules. The quality of such "products" is sometimes very poor;
but as their EEPROM is typically just a copy of some genuine Cisco
module, the real manufacturer is unknown and customers can't easily
distinguish them from the originals. So instead of ensuring quality,
we've ended in the mess.
  
  --gmb
  
  
  
  
 		
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